Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it . . . That we would do, We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer; Hamlet comes back
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Laertes: For he himself is subject to his birth; He may not, as unvalu’d persons do, Carve for himself, for on his choice dependsThe safety and the health of the whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib’d Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head.
Take a look at this image from Jonathan Price’s adaptation of Hamlet.Take a look at this image from Sir Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Hamlet.

What should audience members ask themselves when they evaluate how an actor interprets a character? Choose three answers.Which words does the actor emphasize?What makes this a talented actor?How old is the actor?In what other productions has the actor appeared?What gestures and movements does the actor make?What emotions does the actor convey?
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Which ideas describe a round character? Select three answers.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance!
To analyze tone, the reader should study word choice, which is also called
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.. . . To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy; On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.
Which statements describe Elizabethan drama? Select two answers.
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